[likeabatterycar]

> is the windows platform hostile to those sort of tools

No need for hyperbolics, just say you don't know.

The built in Windows Firewall does this. No need to pay for a 3rd party magic app.

Laud praise on Little Snitch all you want but Windows could quietly do this out of the box for two decades.

25 years ago we used ZoneAlarm and a variety of other tools.

[unsnap_biceps]

I asked if it was hostile and asking is done because I don't know. I'm sorry that my wording upset you.

Windows firewall does not appear to have similar features. A vscode extension connecting to a host I run is okay, connecting to a random domain is not okay and I don't see anything at all in windows firewall to notify me about individual connections. Please advise me on where this functionality is if I'm just missing it.

And there's a lot about little snitch that I actively dislike, but its features are extremely useful. I'd love to have those on windows as well.

As others have linked me similar software, I will explore those.

[paulddraper]

Windows Firewall can allow or block domains.

It doesn't have "allow but notify," if that's what you're looking for.

[TiredOfLife]

The problem is you used a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

[diggan]

> The built in Windows Firewall does this. No need to pay for a 3rd party magic app.

I'm not a macOS user anymore, but when I was, Little Snitch did more than just block/allow all connections a program makes. You get a popup/window for each connection attempt, and can whitelist the process, domain, specific address, port and more.

Is this really how Windows Firewall works? Because I've used Windows for more than two decades, and I only remember a boolean "allow/disallow" based on the program itself, when it tries to make a connection, then you see nothing else unless you manually go and dig into the configuration/rules. Have I been missing out on something?

[edgineer]

Windows Firewall Control, now owned by Malwarebytes, adds notification on connection attempt as a feature, while leaving windows firewall running intact.

I've never been fully satisfied with software firewalls, but WFC comes close.

[MassiveQuasar]

It is absolutely not how Windows work.

[Hikikomori]

You'll get a popup to allow it, but it's on/off. But you can manually create rules for each .exe as well.

[fuzzy2]

Windows Filtering Platform does it. Windows Firewall barely taps WFP's potential and definitely does not do the whole "ZoneAlarm" style allow/deny thing.